Climate Change Ecology
- Interactions between C3 and C4 plants in
response to global climate change and the consequences for herbivore
population dynamics and ecosystem functioning
- Warming impacts on plant-herbivore-predator tri-trophic interactions
and the community structure
- Effects of climate-driven phenological/geographical shifts and the
resulting temporal/spatial synchrony/asynchrony on the population
dynamics of interacting species (novel interactions and trophic
mismatches)
- Comparing the performance and fitness of environmental generalists
vs. specialists under changing climates
- Modeling the role of environmental variations/fluctuations and
extremes in shaping biological responses
- Species responses to warming from individual behavior and physiology
to population dynamics and community structure: linking theories and
models at various levels of biological organization
- How environmental changes alter predator-prey interactions via
consumptive vs. non-consumptive effects